contumulo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

con-tŭmŭlo, āre, v. a. *

I To heap up like a mound : ovis stragulum molle pulvere, Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 100.—

II To furnish with a mound, to inter, bury : saucium ingestā humo, Ov. Ib. 460; cf. id. Tr. 3, 3, 33; Mart. 8, 57, 4.

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